On 11/21/05, charles matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
Good point. Guidelines exist; they can't all be junked. On the other hand
they exist in tension. Unfortunately, policy, semi-policy, guideline,
whatever, is used in the same fashion as stone clubs in the Neolithic:
anything to hand to win an argument. (Yes, yes, uncalled-for slur on Fred
Flintstone, I know.)
If something really valuable gets deleted, just undelete it. If this
happens often enough, deletion policy will be subject to refinement.